A Sofia Globe news article, read directly for this pass, reporting Pew Research Center's 2017 report "Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century": 81 percent of Bulgaria's population, more than six million people on 2015 figures, self-identified as Orthodox Christian.
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English language news outlet reporting a named academic research organization's (Pew Research Center) published finding at one remove; the underlying Pew report itself was not separately minted as a source this pass. NotesUnderlying survey fieldwork for Central and Eastern Europe was conducted 2015 to 2016; the 81 percent / six million figure is Pew's Bulgaria country estimate as reported in this 2017 article.
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PublisherThe Sofia Globe
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://sofiaglobe.com/2017/11/12/81-of-bulgarias-population-are-orthodox-christians-but-22-of-them-are-atheists-or-agnostics-2/
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